1998 in paleontology

Flora

Lycophytes

Lycophyte research

• Wehr reports, without description, Selaginella species spikemoss fossils occurring in the Eocene Okanagan Highlands Klondike Mountain Formation.

Fungi

Fungal research

• Currah, Stockey, & LePage describe the a phyllachoralean "tar spot" parasitizing Uhlia palm leaves, and host for a hyperparasitic pleosporalean fungus. They note them to be one of the first occurrences of hyperparasitic relationships in the fossil record.

Arthropods

Newly named crustaceans

Name	Novelty	Status	Authors	Age	Unit	Location	Notes	Images
Ursquilla	Gen nov	Valid	Hof	Late Cretaceous	Mishash Formation Amman Silicified Limestone Formation	Israel Newly named insects Name Novelty Status Authors Age Unit Location Notes Images Acanthostichus hispaniolicus Sp. nov Valid De Andrade Burdigalian Dominican amber Dominican Republic Molluscs Bivalves Name Novelty Status Authors Age Unit Location Notes Images Pojetaia sarhroensis sp nov Valid Geyer & Streng Early Cambrian Anti-Atlas mountains Morocco Amphibians newly named anurans Name Novelty Status Authors Age Unit Location Notes Images Rhadinosteus Gen et sp nov Valid Henrici Kimmeridgian Morrison Formation United States Archosauromorpha Dinosaurs A paper in the journal Nature is published by Karen Chin and others announcing the earlier discovery of a "king-sized coprolite" attributed to Tyrannosaurus rex.Lourinhasaurus gastroliths documented.Cedarosaurus gastroliths documented.Caudipteryx gastroliths documented. Volunteers from the Denver Museum of Natural History discovered Tony's Bone Bed in the Cedar Mountain Formation's Poison Strip Member. Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list.